University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

The book provides an introductory knowledge about education, extension education and agricultural extension by incorporating their definition meaning concepts, objectives and principles which is basic to learners of extension education. The concepts have been depicted throught adequate number of tables and figures to facilitate a structured reading and effect a functional understanding by the learners. # This book also provides basic knowledge about the concept, objectives, principles, importance, philosophy and problems, limitations, achievements, strengths and weaknesses of various community or rural development programmes implemented from time to time for the benifit of rural mass both prior to independence and after the independence. The book also deals with the objectives and salient features of various Agricultural development programmes viz. IADP, HYVP, IVLP, WDP, NATP, ATMA, ATIC, ITDA, IRDP, SGSY, PEMY, DWCRA, MSY, RMK, ICDS, T&V system, BBE.

This book has been written to serves as a handbook of extension education for horticulture, forestry, fisheries, dairy science and allied desciplines in all the SAUs and extension education institutes, planners, administrators, policy makers,NGOworkers, etc. involved in rural development in general and agricultural development in particular. # This book is expected to equip and arm the learners of extension education with the dimensions of agricultural extension to promote virtual education in agriculture and rural development. The virtual education would proceed from class room education to mass education and would cover distance learners from unreached communities including farmers and farm women.